[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 5/5] powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Sep 08 2023 - 20:25:26 EST


From: ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit afda85b963c12947e298ad85d757e333aa40fd74 ]

If device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobject
which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.

As comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to drop
the reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails,
so the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().

Signed-off-by: ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20221110011929.3709774-1-ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
index 8c6e509f69675..c3cc010e9cc45 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ static int __init ibmebus_bus_init(void)
if (err) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: device_register returned %i\n",
__func__, err);
+ put_device(&ibmebus_bus_device);
bus_unregister(&ibmebus_bus_type);

return err;
--
2.40.1